Excerpt from Four of Five Thoughts Poems
Tang Dynasty: Yuan Zhen
Once I tasted the vast sea, I felt that the water in other places was pale; Once you have experienced the clouds in Wushan, you feel that the clouds elsewhere are eclipsed.
Hurried through the flowers, lazy to look back; This reason is partly because of the ascetic monk, and partly because of who you used to be.
The translation is as follows:
Once you have been to the seaside, there is not enough water in other places; Clouds in other places are not called clouds except Wushan.
Hurried through the flowers, too lazy to look back; This reason is partly due to the abstinence of monks and partly because you have had it.
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Creation background
This poem was written in the fifth year of Yuanhe (8 10), when Cao, the prefect of Jiangling, joined the army. The author wrote this poem because he missed his young lover Cui Yingying.
The so-called "Biography of Yingying" written by the poet is actually a cold woman Cui. The love affair between Yuan Zhen and Cui Yingying began in the 16th year of Zhenyuan (800) and ended in the 19th year of Zhenyuan (803), during which many erotic poems were written for Yingying. In the end, Yuan Zhen married Wei Cong, a well-off family, and abandoned his former lover for the sake of success and rising power.
It can be seen that Yuan Zhen's feelings for Wen Shuang are not as loyal as he expressed in this poem. What is the reason? Yuan Haowen wrote in "On Thirty Poems": "The heart is always distorted, and the article would rather see people again?" It can be seen that Yuan Zhen's dual personality has different manifestations in different periods. It is a great fallacy that he abandoned double literature and married another, but the social atmosphere at that time was also largely responsible.
Brief introduction of the author
Yuan Zhen (779-831) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Small word, Henan (now Luoyang, Henan) people. Dezong Zhenyuan (785-805) studied the classics of the Ming Dynasty, replied to the book, awarded excellent subjects and awarded them to proofreaders. Xian Zongyuanhe (806- 820) first awarded Zuo Fu and was promoted to suggestion. Later, he offended eunuchs, demoted Jiangling scholar Cao to join the army, transferred to Tongzhou Sima, and transferred to Guo Governor Shi.
The phase of March, the same as the state secretariat, was changed to the observer of eastern Zhejiang. Wenzong Yamato (827-835) was Zuo Cheng, a senior minister, who was appointed as our special envoy in Wuchang, where he died. Bai Juyi and Bai Juyi advocated the new Yuefu movement. Although their Yuefu poems were not as sharp, profound and popular as Bai's Yuefu, they were quite influential at that time and were called "Bai Yuan". Later works hurt glitz, so there is a ridicule that "Yuan is lighter than white customs".
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